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Eadweard Muybridge had a varied photographic career working taking over 2,000 photographs of the American West between 1868 and 1873 - including crystal clear views of the Yosemite Valley in California but the work he is remembered for are his scientific photographs of motion.
In 1872 the railway tycoon Leland Stanford (1824-1893), the founder of Stanford University, placed a bet on how a horse moved but it had been impossible to establish the point with a horse whilst it was in motion. He hired Muybridge to demonstrate the issue with photographs. To achieve this Muybridge developed special cameras, triggering devices and multiple lenses to capture the entire movement of an animal carrying out a specified task. He went on to produce books that are well known by artists, designers, photographers and scientists as a visual guide to the movements of both man and animals. For the creation of his book "Animal Locomotion" he took over 100,000 photographs. |
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